Dispatches

Short notes from across the sciences.

October 22, 2026 An Electron That Cannot Escape: Researchers at Columbia University report observing electronic bound states in the continuum in a two-dimensional metal, Pd₅AlI₂. Ordinarily, an electron whose energy lies within a continuum of available states can propagate through a conducting ... Read more...

October 22, 2026 Nearly Two Thousand AI Agents Investigate a Mouse Brain: A collaboration involving OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research reports deploying 1,946 AI agents to analyze the effects of genetic perturbations across millions of mouse brain cells. Each agent investigated a particular perturbation ... Read more...

October 22, 2026 Teleporting Quantum Information Protected by Error-Correcting Codes: Writing in Nature Physics, Yiren Zou and colleagues report teleporting logical quantum states encoded in surface codes using a superconducting processor containing 125 physical qubits ... Read more...

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